Without they, the Grantors having, reserving, or retaining for the i'uture, any, the smallest part, right, action, or authority, whether of property, command, or jurisdiction therein ; but now, hereby, forever and a day desisting, retiring from, abandoning and renouncing the same for the behoof aforesaid; promising further, not only to observe, fulfil, and to hold fast, unbroken and irrevocable, this their conveyance, and whatever may be done in virtue thereof, but, also, the said parcel of land to maintain against every one, and to deliver free of controversies, gainsays and contradictions, by whomsoever instituted against the same. All in good faith without guile or deceit. In witness is this confirmed with our usual signature and our seal dependant therefrom. Done on the aforesaid Island Manahatas, this fifteenth of July, XVI" and thirty.

(Signed) Pieter Mixuit, Director, Pieter Bylvelt, Jacob Elbertsen Wissixck, Jax Jansen Brouwer, Symox Dircksen Pos, Reyxer Harmensex, Jax Lampo,

Sheriff. •

Another of the directors who took time by the forelock in the matter of the Patroonships was Kiliaen van Rensselaer of Amsterdam, who de Vries tells us " wns accustomed to polish pearls and diamonds." At his request Sebastian Jansen Kraol, who had resided as commissary at Fort Orange for three or four years, bought for him early in 1630, of the Mohican Indians, a tract on t"he west side of the Hudson, and shortly after another agent, Gillis Hosset, bought for him another tract on the east side of that river, of the same Indians. These purchases were on the 13th of August duly " transported " or granted to van Rensselaer by Director Minuit and his Council, and were the first lands in the State of New York granted under the charter of Freedoms and Exemptions, and consequently the following "transport" of these lands, is the first deed of conveyance for any lands in this State to a private person under the charter of 1629.